Graduate English Proficiency, Waivers, and Conditional Admission

Ball State University requires all international graduate applicants to demonstrate English proficiency by submitting a TOEFL, Pearson's PTE, or IELTS score unless eligible for a waiver. Scores can be submitted by emailing a scanned copy of the score report to INTADMIT@bsu.edu.

Required Scores for English Proficiency

TOEFL 79

IELTS 6.5 bands

Pearson's PTE 53

Conditional admission is available to students who are academically admissible to Ball State but do not meet our English proficiency required scores. Students who are eligible for conditional admission are admitted to the Intensive English Institute program at Ball State and must meet English proficiency requirements before being offered full admission to the university. Eligible students will receive an I-20 for English Language training and may receive an updated I-20 for academic study after receiving full admission. Visit our Frequently Asked Questions About Conditional Admission for more information.

Conditional admission is not available for all Ball State graduate programs.

The graduate programs below do not offer conditional admission:

Applied Meteorology & Climatology/GI Science

Architecture II (professionals only)

Athletic Coaching Education

Biology

Clinical Psychology

Communication Studies

English (all graduate programs)

Executive Development for Public Service

Information Communication Sciences

Journalism

Public Relations

Rehabilitation Counseling

School Counseling

School Psychology

Social Psychology (general and applied)

Speech Pathology

Sport and Exercise Psychology

Student Affairs Administration

Urban Design

Doctoral programs do not offer conditional admission.

Proof of English Proficiency

You can meet the English proficiency requirements of Ball State if you have done any of the following in the U.S.:

earned a high school diploma

earned a college degree

have 24 credit hours of credit-bearing academic study at an accredited university

Also, applicants meet English proficiency requirements, if they have earned a high school diploma or a college degree from the following native English-speaking countries: